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German Poetry Now: A bilingual online-anthology, featured by DAS GEDICHT chapbook   Maik Lippert Radio liturgy for Symeon you stretch out your arms reaching for the retro-looking apparatus God’s eye is an analog frequency display in a bluish glow unattainably high up on the kitchen shelf you on the floor are desperately practicing speaking in tongues   translated by Paul-Henri Campbell     »Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« im Archiv »Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« is an online collection of contemporary German-language poetry in English translation. All poems were taken from issue no. 22 of the German poetry magazine DAS […]

German Poetry Now: A bilingual online-anthology, featured by DAS GEDICHT chapbook   Maik Lippert Smoke detectors save lives Says the fire department Inhabitants of historical buildings, however, fear That their stucco ceilings might be disfigured by plastic boxes Not everybody is a Venusian after all And already has a mobile Hanging around with miniature UFOs Smoke detectors save lives Says the fire department That isn’t a question of aesthetics But it is for me (someone replies) I’d rather die Than look up at the plastic box upon the ceiling every evening (And somebody at the fire department thinks: well, die […]